Judge Richard Marks QC said: “So far as the victim Santino Dymiter is concerned, he was no angel as the jury heard. “But he was 18 years old and he had his whole life ahead of him. He did not deserve to die, still less in the circumstances in which he did.” In a victim impact statement, mother Malgorzata Dymiter described how he had previously got in with the “wrong crowd”. She said: “Unless you are a mother you cannot know what it feels like to lose a child but to lose a child through senseless and stupid violence is beyond words.”